Katherine Helmond Quotes
I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
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Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
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Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
